From 7 to 9 October 2021, Anne Juren presents Fantasmical Anatomies Lessons and Studies at MDT Moderna Dansteatern in Stockholm. Conceived as the central artistic presentation of her doctoral project Studies on Fantasmical Anatomies, the work unfolds as a multipart format bringing together performances, lessons, sessions, readings, and lectures. The presentation opens a space in which choreography becomes a field of embodied research and shared experience.

At the core of the project lies an exploration of the body through choreography, Feldenkrais, anatomy, poetry, psychoanalysis, as well as feminist and queer theory. Anne Juren develops a practice that moves between artistic research, somatic attention, and poetic imagination. A key element of this process is the Fantasmical Anatomies Lessons, public choreographic lessons in which participants are guided through language, sensation, and imagination, often while lying down with their eyes closed. For the presentation at MDT, this wider research constellation includes works such as Critical Awareness Lesson, Fantasmical Anatomies: studio installation and video works, Sensorial Transference, and Chromopoems, an installation with an eleven minute performance for one person that translates texts from the research into coloured light.

The project situates the body as a site of perception, projection, memory, and transformation. In doing so, it makes visible how choreography can generate knowledge beyond representation and open a sensorial and reflective relation to experience. Fantasmical Anatomies Lessons and Studies forms part of the artistic research Anne Juren publicly defends on 26 November 2021 at Stockholm University of the Arts, where the work continues to resonate as an invitation to rethink how bodies are imagined, felt, and understood.